| General Description | This astonishing plant has very showy flowers in late spring, early summer. This particular plant has dark pink bell-shaped flowers. This cultivar is extremely cold hardy tolerating full sun, light shade, and thrives in average soils.
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| ID Characteristic | This elegant and hardy spring-flowering shrub is covered in reddish-pink trumpet-shaped flowers with yellow throats, which attract humming birds. It has green-tinged purple leaves. The corolla is ruby red and the petal lobes are lilac purple.
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| Shape | Arching, dense, spreading and rounded. |
| Landscape | This shrub is used best in groupings or massing. Also used in shrub borders, small hedges or foundation plantings.
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| Propagation | Weigela florida ‘Minuet’ is one of the easiest plants to root. Propagate from greenwood cuttings in early summer or semi-ripe cuttings in mid-summer. Tissue culture has been successful in the past.
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| Cultivation | Weigela florida ‘Minuet’ transplants fairly easily. Transplant bare root or from container. Prefers to be planted in well-drained soils in full sun – partial shade. This shrub is a medium grower and accepts acidic, neutral and alkaline soils.
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| Pests | No serious pests or diseases. Weigela has little problem with insects, but is susceptible to fungal diseases, such as gray mold.
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| Notable Specimens | The Gardens of Fanshawe Colllege, London, Ontario, Canada. |
| Habitat | Horticultured origin. |
| Bark/Stem Description | The bark on Weigela florida ‘Minuet’ is grey-brown in colour. The bark has circular lenticels and rows of small hairs between the nodes.
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| Flower/Leaf Bud Description | Slightly fragrant ruby red tubular-shaped blooms in spring, with lilac-purple edges and yellow throats. Sparse or scattered blooms may occur again in mid to late summer.
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| Leaf Description | Weigela florida ‘Minuet’ has medium green leaves, opposite, simple, and ovate, 5–11 cm long, 2–3.5 cm wide, tomentose on lower veins. Leaves have a very short petiole.
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| Flower Description | Perfect flowers 3.2-6.5 cm long. Narrow below middle, rosy pink outside, with rounded spreading lobes. Dark pink bell shaped flowers. Blossoms are born on 1-year-old branches. |
| Fruit Description | The fruit has no ornamental value. Seed capsule that is 2 valved and 2.5 cm long. The seeds tend to be mostly without wings. |
| Colour Description | Leaf colour is medium to dark green/purple in the summer months and turns a brownish/purple colour in the autumn. Flowers are red; deep rose pink with yellow throats.
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| Texture Description | Medium texture in summer. Leaves are coarse in texture and when bare branches are of medium density.
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